SteemFoods Contest -16-| Special Cake Recipe for Steemit's 5th Anniversary | By @afunkycares
INTRODUCTION
Greetings to all steemians of SteemFoods community. I specially appreciate the admin of @steemitfoods ,@alikoc07 for organizing this beautiful contest in honour of Steemit's 5th Anniversary. He has been doing a good job to make the community grow bigger.
MAKING MY SPECIAL CAKE FOR STEEMIT'S 5TH ANNIVERSARY
I am happy to be a part of this celebration. Joining #Steemit has been awesome for me. I want to say "thank you @steemitblog"
In celebration of Steemit's 5th anniversary, I made a Chocolate Ganache Drip Cake.
RECIPE
•Butter-150g
•Sugar-175g
•All-purpose Flour-200g
•Baking Powder-2 teaspoons
•Eggs-4 large
•Vanilla flavour-½ teaspoon
•Preservative-¼ teaspoon
•Water-100mls
BAKING THE CAKE
•First,cream butter and sugar till fluffy
•Next, prepare the two baking pans and set aside.
To do this,simply rub enough butter inside the pan ,put little flour and dust round to cover every part rubbed in butter.
This prevents baked cake from sticking to the pan,hence, the cake comes out easily from the pan
•Add dry ingredients to flour :baking powder and preservative(both levelled). Mix together with a big spoon.
•Add vanilla flavour to creamed butter & sugar and mix well together with a spatula
•Whisk eggs till fluffy
When breaking eggs,I broke one egg at a time into a cup before pouring into the whisking bowl. This helps to get rid of any bad egg without spoiling the other eggs.
•Measure the water into a cup
PICTURES SHOWING THE STEPS
Now the wet ingredients are ready, we add by alternating.
water
whisked eggs
half of water already added and mixed into it
add half of whisked eggs and mix
add and fold in half of flour gently
Repeat these 3 steps for the remaining halves.
Cake batter made
Scoop into the prepared pans. Baking in two places is faster,and cake remains fluffy to taste.
Bake for about 20-25minutes. Check with a skewa to know when cake is done. Skewa comes out clean when cake is well baked.
I wanted to save gas so I used electric cooker by baking with a pot. I used a sheet to cover the sand bath before placing the pan on it.
Vanilla Cake Ready(in two places)
FROSTING & DESIGNING CAKE
For the frosting ,I used some buttercream in green colour( as green is a part of steemit colour) and some plain one.
applied buttercream on top of one
sandwiched the two together
crumbcoated with greencoloured buttercream
buttercream in piping bag
buttercream applied round
smoothened side with decorating comb
smoothened top with offset palette knife
texturized top with triangular comb
Frosted cake
Dripped ganache round the cake
Ganache: Chocolate chips + cream
Water is a good substitute for cream,you get the same result
Chocolate chips were not available at the store,so I used a big chocolate bar and . I made this ganache by melting a chocolate bar and adding little water to obtain a thick runny consistency as seen below.
Then on a cake topper,I designed a steemit logo and a heart ( showing my love for steemit)😊
I finished off with some edible gold dredges, edible stars, butterfly cutout and placed the topper right in the middle.
CONGRATULATIONS
Thank you all for reading.
Special thanks
@steemitblog
@steemitfoods
@steemcurator01
@steemcurator02
@booming
The cake is very beautiful.
Congratulations!!!
Thank you so much @adonisr
Wow wow wow! This is beautiful. I congratulate you on your tenacity to make this cake for @steemit birthday. Hope I can join in eating this cake. Cheers.
Thank you dear@chinma. Yes, pls you can join in the joy of eating.
@afunkycares (59) your cake is beautiful!
💯
Up you🤗
Thank you dear. Hope you'll submit your entry too?
You are welcome ....... before weekend let's see how it goes
👍 good
Hello :
Thank you so much for sharing your delicious recipe in detail in SteemFoods Community. I added this post to the "Best SteemFoods Posts of the Day" on 06.04.2021. We will try to vote this post with -steemcurator01, -steemcurator02 -steemcurator06 or booming accounts. Continue creating content in the SteemFoods Community. :)
NOTE: Your participation in the contest that I organized with the #steemanniversary-cake tag has been successfully approved. Thank you so much for sharing a delicious cake recipe for Steemit's 5th Anniversary in SteemFoods Community. :)
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